Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

GA 263 — 4 September 1919, Stuttgart

Letter to Edith Maryon

Rudolf Steiner to Edith Maryon

Stuttgart, 4 September 1919

My dear Miss E. Maryon,

I received your letter and was pleased to receive it. I am thinking a lot about the work in the sculpture workshop there and will be glad when I can take part in it again. There is a lot of work to be done here to set up the school. Every morning we start at 9 a.m. with a lecture on general pedagogy, followed by a quarter-hour break and then a second lecture on specific methodology and didactics. Then, after these two lectures, it is 11:30. The seminar begins in the afternoon from 3-6. Then there are usually some meetings. So it is lectures all day, so to speak. In between, I think about the work in Dornach, especially about our sculpture group.

With regard to the translation of my book, it will be the case that one person finds what the other person finds less good; and we will probably only be able to decide when we have seen the other translation. Our opinion of the translation that has been done is actually sufficient. The only result will be to delay publication of the translation, as has often been the case with my books, where one translator was always dissatisfied with the other. They should be satisfied with the translation we have already done, in which I was involved, and get the commission to publish it, instead of criticizing it too much. But we will see what happens when I am back in Dornach.

The school here opens on Sunday. The preparatory lectures and seminar exercises are to be completed this week. Then I would like to go to Berlin on Tuesday or Wednesday next week; I am scheduled to give lectures in Dresden from September 18 to 21; then here again on September 24 and soon after that I should be going back to Dornach.

It will be very satisfying for me to work in Dornach again and to be able to use the sculpture studio.

With warm greetings

Rudolf Steiner
currently in Stuttgart, Landhausstraße 70